We have a year old Dell Inspiron laptop that on startup for Windows goes to blue screen with lots of type on it. It is performing a crash dump, a physical dump of memory (I think that's what it says, it goes by so fast) and gets into an endless loop of trying to start Windows and going to this screen over and over. We've hit the F2 and F12 to run diagnostics and boot options but nothing works. All the diagnostics come back saying everything is fine, but quite obivously it is not. This is the second laptop my teenagers have frigged up with their damn internet surfing. Please help if you can!

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You need to jot down the STOP Code next time you see the blue screen. It'll be something along the lines of "STOP 0x00000079 MISMATCHED_HAL", but probably not that. You can end up with the blue screen in so many ways, but just Google-ing that code will give you answers.

You'll probably also need to try getting into Windows via safe mode, but get that stop code first.

It's Stop Code 0x0000007E and there are about 1,000 links on Google for it. Argh.

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Yea, but the steps they have you doing are pretty simple, and the first thing they all recommend is checking to see if you're out of disk space. Boot up in safe mode and see if the kids just filled up the hard drive. If that's it, just keep checing thru the steps Microsoft has here.

I went through all the steps they suggest. Clear space on the disk to make sure there is enough space. Boots in safe mode fine. Went through clean boot, went through all the services and all the startups with boots in between each iteration. Still getting the same blue screen.

I keep searching Microsoft for more things to try, but I grow weary....

Once again, I have blown away my signature's tags and it's up to CRZ to fix them before the entire board disappears. I don't know I continue have to have this green background if I'm not going to properly mantain it!